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These symptoms prompted the six to rush to Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (one in an ambulance, according to Mabel P. Duyao, research director in the HMS Pathology Department) on August 26. The Harvard University Police Department is in the process of figuring out how the sodium azide got into the coffee machine, but as of now, what happened is still a mystery...
...open forum in September, Smith first informed faculty and staff that progress had been made on a financial situation that led him to declare “all is not rosy” in correspondence to the Faculty last October. Speaking before an audience in the Science Center, Smith mentioned the anonymous gifts and told forum attendees that, thanks to a combination of windfalls and budget trimming, the current fiscal year had seen its deficit already slashed by over $100 million from projections. Today’s report brought more details. In the report, Smith wrote that the administration should...
Election observers have asked for more such stations to be closed, citing fears of continued abuses, but they also recognize the need to balance rural areas' right to vote with the risk of fraud. Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies, says such an approach risks alienating the very people whom a new President needs most to ensure his legitimacy. "If the Independent Election Commission doesn't open sites where the Taliban is strong, they are telling the Pashtuns in the south that your vote doesn't count," he says...
Most Afghans, however, say the efforts at fraud prevention will be worthless if people don't turn out to vote. Safora el-Khani, a Member of Parliament from Bamiyan, the mountainous center of Afghanistan, points out that for many parts of her district, which is largely inhabited by a minority ethnic group, it is already too late. Winter arrives early in the mountains of Afghanistan, and heavy snowfall will make it impossible for voters to get to the polls or for ballots to make it back to Kabul for tabulation. "We will not have access to some polling stations...
...Part of its task will be to evaluate the government's response in tackling the disease, and draw up recommendations for future large-scale leptospirosis outbreaks, said Eric Tayag, head of the Department of Health's National Epidemiology Center. "They will also be looking at why there have been such high mortality rates" in the current outbreak, he said. Between 5 and 10% of the cases in this outbreak have been resulted in death - the highest level of mortality for leptospirosis by WHO's measures. (Read "The Manila Floods: Why Wasn't the City Prepared...